24 Jan 2022 Monday HJ sends wedding photos

 HJ kindly asked her own wedding photographer to take pictures of Sam and I after learning that we have never had our wedding photo taken. Not that we couldn't afford it at the time, we did not see the point of it; we had known each other for so long and had taken so many photos of each other already. 

But we consented, and sat down on a roll of reinforcement wire (they were fixing the pavement) and asked the photographer to shoot, just shoot and don't try to pose us (we won't listen to your instructions). And to everyone's surprise, this turned out really nice - an un-posed shot; spontaneous and capturing Sam's spirited nature, something which no amount of 'free-style' posing would be able to achieve. Personally, I felt that he should have kept the shutter going when shooting HJ and Tim, it is digital after all - to capture the spontaneous moments.

One of the drawbacks of accidental gardening, this is a good view of me

Nanshan wedding

Qilin and Michelle met at university, I met them in Kuching when they trained as interns together with Sheng, Sueann and Ka Yee. They were Sam's original 'cicaks', so when they moved to Chongqing to be in Qilin's hometown - we promised to attend their wedding.

One day, Michelle wrote to me asking if we were available on the 18.11.18 - inviting us to their garden wedding in Nanshan. 

Michele is a bubbly and warm young lady, and  we were not surprised that her family and her friends whom we met for the first are also a personable lot. Wendy, her younger sister was the Emcee and shown here bent over in laughter. Many of these young people have only just met, having traveled from Shenzhen (from Qilin's former office), from Malaysia (friends from kindy through university) and former colleagues from Chongqing.